1.  In fact, nothing special, in fact probably all went to the general car naschih trains ... the only difference is that in India, you will find an open and friendly fellow travelers. Some of the independent traveler misses the common carriage accident, not ozabotivsya ticket in advance, and in India every day on trains traveling tens of thousands of people and the fact that tickets sleeper classes not - this is a common practice.

Judging from the movies and from what I saw, too, are common cars filled differently, it also happens that passengers hanging out the door. So I can say lucky, on the car could move relatively quiet, although all the seats, the upper shelves, lobbies and toilets ... (!) Were employed.

But it all starts with the purchase of tickets. I will write a separate article about trains in India, today show photos:

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3.  Wagon "second-class", also known as "general class" write wagons and so and so. On the train, hot, instead of windows lattice under the ceiling fans broken. During the drive through the forest belt in the car fly all sorts of tropical butterflies and dragonflies, which is also fast and blown by the wind.

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5.  Arriving at the gate 40 minutes before departure, my friends and I have not been able to sit in one car, so went to a neighbor. As it turned out, we were lucky that we all sat.



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9.  Dim artificial light, high ISO, white balance is horrendous ... but to do a series of black-and-white deliberately did not, after all, India - is, above all, COLOR!

10.   In the vestibule guys dine. I have great difficulty could not refuse the offer to sit down. Almost every companion friendly, trying to speak, something to show, something to entertain me ... Even paint smeared on the train on the eve of Holi celebrations. Unfortunately, with knowledge of English was only a few people in the car.

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14.  The guy is not top shelf took too much on the occasion of Holi and always strove to fall down:

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18.  On the bottom shelf sits an average of 5-6 Indians, although the regiment in size is the same as in our reserved seat (3 seats). On the floor, someone goes to bed, and so almost every "coupe":

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24.  Station - is another story. Here sleeps a huge number of people, there are times that you just need to step over sleeping bodies to move forward:

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26. The office of the conductor:

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28.  What did you see in the pictures ?!
Insanitary conditions, dirt, felt bad smell ?!

Most likely you will find yourself right, I saw a piece of real India, met pleasant companions and have even sent pictures of your fellow travelers. Reject stereotypes and complexes, try to feel the country from different angles.

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